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Twitter didn't fail but it was on its knees for a long time due to poor architecture and technical capability in its early years.

• marwann 7y ago
  Thanks. Do you know more about the actual flaws of the architecture in the early days? As I recall, they used to be hosted on Akamai and in colocation centres, but I don't know much about the rest.
  • epc 7y ago
    Initial Twitter service was built using Ruby on Rails, shifting to Scala on the JVM around 2011-2012. See: https://www.infoq.com/articles/twitter-java-use/ https://www.infoq.com/articles/twitter-java-use/ https://carlosbecker.com/posts/twitter-drops-ruby-bullshit/ https://carlosbecker.com/posts/twitter-drops-ruby-bullshit/ https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2011/twitter-search-is-now-3x-faster.html https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2011/twitter-se... for a sampling of explanations.
    • marwann 7y ago
      Thanks a bunch!